8 Ball Pool™ in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Fixed results with increasing number of bots

I’ve been playing this game for a few years now and have billions of coins without ever paying for new cues. In fact, have never paid a cent to play this game. That said, it’s become very evident that the vast majority of games you play are fixed. Skill is such a minor determining factor of who actually wins or loses for a material number of your games, and it’s only gotten worse over time. Over the last twelve games I’ve played, you can clearly tell that four have been computers, who all get to break and have a 100% chance of clearing the table before you have a shot. In other words, if you assume you have a zero percent chance of winning 33% of your games, you can max out at 67%. Since I win 65% of my games, I effectively beat 90+% of human opponents. That said, it is very frustrating to have to take a step back in coins every so often because of the number of bots you play. If the developers want to improve the game, it should be completely human interaction. I don’t take offense when I lose to a human player, but is very frustrating to lose millions of coins to a robot. When it happens 1 out of every 3 games, the frustration is amplified. For people who pay money to play, please heed my words that you’re wasting your time and money. Hone your skills and play for free as I do. In conclusion, if the number of bots continue to increase, my time playing this game will soon reach its end.

★★★★★ Cheating issue

There’s no way to report players and it’s been issue after issue for a while. It’s quite obvious when someone lines up one of the most difficult shots you’ve seen over years and years of playing. I know of a few jailbroken editions of this game that provide a line extension so you can see where every single ball will go. Not being able to report these players just makes it so they can win time after time. Second, all breaks are supposed to be simulated and never the same as the last. 90% of the time in 9 ball, unless I break, I lose on that break. It doesn’t take much skill to use a specific break that works every single time. I’ve played for WELL over 10 years (before it even touched IOS and was only available on the miniclip website). The cheating issue and 9 ball issue are at an all time high now and I’m quite tired of it. I’ll get to 100k, 200k, whatever and then lose game after game due to the specific break. There’s also an issue in 8 ball where the ball can bounce off the back of the pocket or even go THROUGH the pocket! I’ve had this happen a few times and you quite literally can’t win unless the opponent puts in the 8 ball early. I’ve played for years because there haven’t been issues until recently. The game also turned to p2w (game pass) which is disgusting to me. “Oh you can get 5 scratchers for $2.99 or you can give us $5 and get the scratchers and a million other things, EVERY MONTH!” Fix the game that I used to love, PLEASE!

★★★★★ Luck, purchases, then skill

The basic interactions and mechanics of this game can be quite enjoyable. But it’s pretty much luck to win or loose. After playing this very long you get the feeling that in order to “improve” you need more techniques and cue powers that only come from $$. Not that I wanted to win all my games but I definitely felt like there were times when I could predict that I was going to win or loose - it just didn’t seem to depend too much whether I was playing well or not. So even though there are no ads, I feel like I’m being forced to spend $$ to continue playing. The game was fun but not the pressure to win to keep playing. Now in my latest run in with 8 Ball Pool I’m convinced they can identify former players who delete the app and “start over”. I’ve been playing for two days and had a power rating of 13 but the program was matching against players who had power ratings of 95 90 and 104!! After 2 of these folks ran the table on me so that I didn’t even soot once, I’m writing this to warn new players. Be prepared to spend $$ and be at least moderately serious about your game- which for me defeats the purpose of low stress casual entertainment. As for me I’m finished with it!! I love playing it but hate being manipulated/ bullied!!

★★★★★ Great game

This is the best pool game available! I love this game and have been playing since 2017. I always buy something each month to show my support to Miniclip. I would encourage every player to show their support for this company. It might be prosperous to include training challenges and games for players for a small fee. Hopefully Miniclip can get rid of all the cheaters that use mods and hacks. And we need a way to be able to organize and use the chat packs. It’s almost impossible to keep the chats in the order you put them in when you have so many because they keep resetting and going back to a different order. We need the option of deleting the chats we don’t use and a better way to organize and use them. Best game on the market. I wish I could invest in Miniclip and share my recommendations with this awesome company. It would also help if there was a way to organize your cues. I have so many , it hard to scroll all of them. Just like trying to organize the chats or emoticons while communicating with other players. Some chats I would never use and would like to delete them. I never use negative comments to my opponents. If we can communicate easier with the people we are playing, more people would play.

★★★★★ 8-ball pool

As you clearly know already, your site becomes more attractive whenever you give players both more choices and more control. You’ve improved control over ordering where the emoticons appear in our list of emoticon choices since the last time I wrote a review, but for me at least I can still Hide and Unhide messages on my text message list, but for some time now I’ve been no longer able to sort them. They do move when I sort, but after I’ve finished re-sorting and exited that screen, they’re all back again in the same order as before I started. The routine works, but it looks like your not saving its products. Also, add more basic text messages, such as “Look out” or “Be careful” along with your thematic ones. As a club leader, I’d especially like to see some that could be used to help novice members play more effectively. And I still very much dislike the unrealistic outcome distributions produced by the spin wheel - as I’m sure you know, small rewards come up far more often than they ought to if it was an honest wheel with an equal probability of stopping in any segment. You must know about schedules of reinforcement, but you should create contingencies that are consistent with your graphics worlds.

★★★★★ Gifts won’t load to send or receive anything!!!!

For months I haven’t been able to get gifts to load! I’ve deleted and downloaded game repeatedly and tried everything I could think of to fix it! Nothing has worked! I’ve missed out on so much due to this mistake on your end! Also it’s impossible to simply write to you and let you know when there is an issue! Not to mention I’ve also been paying for this app weekly and got NOTHING out of it! There’s much to be done to make this app more successful and the first thing you should do is make it easier to let you know when someone is having an issue, second would be to make sure you somehow compensate players when there’s an error on your end, and also you should help make more sense of cue stick information all together. I truly hope you find a way to to make up for the MONTHS I’ve missed out on and definitely make it easier for players to let you know when something isn’t working! We should be able to go to settings and be able to click on a link to directly let you know and that way you can actually fix the issues! I’m sorry I’m im extremely disappointed that this has gone on this long and that I’ve wasted so much time trying to fix it on my own to no prevail and spent so much money on a game that’s constantly letting me down! And today I finally gave up and deleted my subscription!

★★★★★ Cheaters and hackers rule this game

I have been playing this game for years and it has gotten so far out of hand with the cheaters, it is actually ruining the fun. Mini clip did something about the Cheto hackers a couple years ago, but have done absolutely nothing since then. The Cheto hackers were the ones that have a program that looks like random shots where the balls are just bouncing all over the place, but then miraculously every single time one of their balls goes in the called pocket. Cheaters are still out in bulk and win every competition, every weekly rankings. They are at the top winning hundreds of billions of coins a week. Mini clip has done absolutely nothing to prevent this in the last two years. you can report people as cheaters, but we have zero faith in the developers to actually do anything about our reports. The only realization that we as honest players have come to is a mini clip is somehow making money off of these cheaters by either selling their accounts or something else as to why they refuse to take care of the problem. mini clip sends almost daily ratings when you were playing a few games, but you can only choose to rate them five stars or one through four stars, you can’t rate them one star or two stars or three stars or four stars, they’re all thrown together. And I’ve been writing the same review for well over a year along with many other players here. Which proves they don’t care about the honest players anymore.